Barry Levinson's "The Bay" was a horror film shot in a array of different kinds of digital viewing mediums ( phones, Cameras, Docudrama, still shots). I was terrified of this movie.
Plot/ Spoilers The reality element that I always find so trite and over did, actually still has some pulse. Takes place in a small lake view Maryland place. Ocean boaters are skimming up dead fish on the shallow coast. When they cut the dead fish open, little scary lava things slither out. I turned it off. Turned it on while I was talking to this girl I met on yesterday. I forgot she was there half the time. The shots of people with large bites , that come from the inside out rather. It brings up snippets of preachy messages of whys it is good some creatures are gone, something that could be or could have been in the waters we live by.
I really applaud this movie for its creativity. But true be told, if I wasn't talking to the girlfriend, I'd be sleeping. The more we talked, the more I told her about the movie. Then the messages stopped. I feel I freaked her out pretty bad. I warned her, I don't want to explain the movie its gross. Then she wanted to know how gross. So I explain grosser then CSI or some other hospital related show that shows raw injuries. So she goes I never seen any of those. Doesn't "hospital related show" broaden out to every god damn TV show today? So I'll be damned if she thought I was talking about found footage Skin flick or some other guilty pleasure type movie. If anything it was no more of a film then some wild minded Doc. about "Chem- trails" or Foo Fighters or false hope of a M.Night Shyamalan of ever having a scary movie. I don't know why Barry Levinston would make a movie on such a low budget. He's made some big named movies ( Sleepers, Toys , Man of the Year). I tend to think of him of as the man who makes Robin Williams movies. Thankfully Williams doesn't show up dress like Mork space maggot. No stars in this, it's so low budget, it was meant to feel like some local new station covered the story.
" The Bay" had me praying it was not real. I really was tempted to research of some of the names of what was growing under the people's skin. Some pictures where so obviously from image search. And that may see cheap, but to me that's smart. It's a slow burning thriller with crazy scientific horror factors. To me horror fans see what happens when bigger named directors go down a grade, they see after years of making appeal to no one films, you go to the other studios. Get the film shown at smaller theaters. That's how most horror movies miss the boat on mainstream cult status. Never did it mean lesser funded movies aren't as good as the "big Hollywood" movie. That was the big discovery. Making it cheap and hitting people hard. Something Teddy Roosevelt taught people " speak soft, punch people as hard as you can". That's "The Bay" hits you with some cold hard facts and its up to viewers to make up their mind. I'd give it 7 out of 10 flesh eaten bodies.
Plot/ Spoilers The reality element that I always find so trite and over did, actually still has some pulse. Takes place in a small lake view Maryland place. Ocean boaters are skimming up dead fish on the shallow coast. When they cut the dead fish open, little scary lava things slither out. I turned it off. Turned it on while I was talking to this girl I met on yesterday. I forgot she was there half the time. The shots of people with large bites , that come from the inside out rather. It brings up snippets of preachy messages of whys it is good some creatures are gone, something that could be or could have been in the waters we live by.
I really applaud this movie for its creativity. But true be told, if I wasn't talking to the girlfriend, I'd be sleeping. The more we talked, the more I told her about the movie. Then the messages stopped. I feel I freaked her out pretty bad. I warned her, I don't want to explain the movie its gross. Then she wanted to know how gross. So I explain grosser then CSI or some other hospital related show that shows raw injuries. So she goes I never seen any of those. Doesn't "hospital related show" broaden out to every god damn TV show today? So I'll be damned if she thought I was talking about found footage Skin flick or some other guilty pleasure type movie. If anything it was no more of a film then some wild minded Doc. about "Chem- trails" or Foo Fighters or false hope of a M.Night Shyamalan of ever having a scary movie. I don't know why Barry Levinston would make a movie on such a low budget. He's made some big named movies ( Sleepers, Toys , Man of the Year). I tend to think of him of as the man who makes Robin Williams movies. Thankfully Williams doesn't show up dress like Mork space maggot. No stars in this, it's so low budget, it was meant to feel like some local new station covered the story.
" The Bay" had me praying it was not real. I really was tempted to research of some of the names of what was growing under the people's skin. Some pictures where so obviously from image search. And that may see cheap, but to me that's smart. It's a slow burning thriller with crazy scientific horror factors. To me horror fans see what happens when bigger named directors go down a grade, they see after years of making appeal to no one films, you go to the other studios. Get the film shown at smaller theaters. That's how most horror movies miss the boat on mainstream cult status. Never did it mean lesser funded movies aren't as good as the "big Hollywood" movie. That was the big discovery. Making it cheap and hitting people hard. Something Teddy Roosevelt taught people " speak soft, punch people as hard as you can". That's "The Bay" hits you with some cold hard facts and its up to viewers to make up their mind. I'd give it 7 out of 10 flesh eaten bodies.
Tell Your Friends